In a conference center near San Francisco International Airport on Monday, new ways to teach math were taking off, and with little time to spare. In less than two weeks, the city’s public schools will roll out a new curriculum for the first time in more than a decade. The San Francisco Unified School District’s […] The post How SFUSD’s Teaching Overhaul Aims to Revive Student Math Scores appeared first on The Frisc.| The Frisc
Last week had a special math-y date: 7-24-25, which is a Pythagorean triple. This means that the sum of the squares of the smaller two numbers equals the square of the largest number. Let’s d…| Reflections and Tangents
Using Dynamic Technology to Build Understanding ◊ Episode 6: Quadrilaterals ◊ In Episode 5, we took a brief look at trapezoids, and that got me thinking about the family of quadrilaterals: all the wonderful four-sided polygons that students learn about in geometry. How might Dynamic Geometry (DG) help our learners investigate these shapes? Constructing Parallelograms … Continue reading Go For Geometry! 6→| Reflections and Tangents
Using Dynamic Technology to Build Understanding ◊ Episode 5: Marvelous Midsegments ◊ Welcome to Episode 5, where we take the scenic route in our geometry journey. What happens when we find midpoints of the sides of various polygons and connect them with a segment (known as a midsegment)? Marvelous properties show up; read on for … Continue reading Go For Geometry! 5→| Reflections and Tangents
Using Dynamic Technology to Build Understanding ◊ Episode 2: Draw Vs. Construct ◊ When using Dynamic Geometry technology platforms, a careful distinction must be made between a figure that is DRAWN…| Reflections and Tangents